Even Democrats were cool on Biden. They were slightly more likely to describe him with a neutral word than with a good one.

And in another recent Pew survey, Paul Ryan was slightly more likely to provoke a positive word (37 percent) than a negative one (35 percent).

But just because many Americans don't think much of Biden's intelligence (buffoon, stupid, clown and incompentent all registered several responses), doesn't mean they don't like him. Only five respondents ventured that Biden was "bad."